Why Did AP Believe The “Gaza Siege” Ended?

• Israeli and British officials are concerned that a suspect from the Bulgarian bus bombing is on his way to London attack the games. The Daily Mail writes:

MI5 and Scotland Yard are thought to have raised their threat assessment against the Israeli delegation as Britain prepares for the largest peacetime security operation ahead of the opening of the Olympics this Friday. . . .

Whitehall officials have dismissed the threat of a credible plot against the Israeli Olympic delegation and suggested Israel could be attempting to increase the pressure on British authorities to increase security around the Games.

The ’72 games resumed after 24 hours. The tyrant who ran the games, Avery Brundage, babbled about how the games must go on. Same guy who helped put the 1936 games in Berlin, in Nazi Germany. The games resumed before they’d scrubbed Moshe Weinberg’s blood from Building 31.

• In a Times of London op-ed (paywall), Sir Malcolm Rifkind says Assad’s fall will destroy Iranian schemes for hegemony:

While some radicals in Tehran would argue that Iran had an even greater need for nuclear weapons to compensate for its greater vulnerability following the loss of Syria, a more likely consequence would be a willingness to negotiate with the international community an honourable compromise.

“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who met recently with Abbas, warned him that a renewed PA bid at the UN would prompt Washington to cut off financial aid to the Palestinians.”

But only for a few days! History tells the ‘Palestinians’ the US will restore financial aid as a supposed security/humanitarian measure, or simply in the so-called interests of the United States. The Pals have called the US bluff before and won out. They didn’t believe it or weren’t bothered the first time such was threatened. What makes the US believe that such threats are in any way credible or taken at all seriously by the Pals? Sadly, US & Israel are already a long way down the immoral road of appeasement.

I am confused…AS far as I know , Jerusalem has not been recognised as Israel’s capital by any country (or maybe a very few) . So why the fuss ? Worry about real issues: the constant vilification of Israel…apartheid state, treatment of Palestinians and all the other issues that young people around the world dislike us for_ wrongly. WE need to be more pro-active in negativing these attacks and not worry about the BBC ‘s designation of Jerusalem. The gov’t should send a very strong message to the Olympic Committee that it is bowing to Arab pressure in not allowing the minute of silence and make a real FUSS !!! Those things people notice and can think on…

The US Congress recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital in the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which is Law in the US. However, the law has remained unimplemented due to presidents exercising a presidential waiver. Furthermore, customary international law is to recognize as the capital of a country that place designated as such by the country itself. Only in the case of Israel is its designated capital not recognized as international law dictates. However, this is not surprising because the nations of the world and the UN constantly ignore international law when it comes to Israel, inc. UN/LoN treaties and the UN Charter. It is a REAL issue, inseparable from the others you mentioned.

If the Australian courts give the right to protesters to stay on private property, even after being asked to leave, with the excuse that they are simply expressing their political views, then it will be perfectly legal and acceptable for, say, Christian, Jewish or Hindu groups to organize protests inside Australian mosques during Friday services, to protest female gen mutilation, slavery, persecution, genocide, terrorism etc as practiced in Islamic societies. Fair’s fair, mate!!!!